Hi! I have now successfully installed gentoo and KDE. That's it. Got my USB mouse working, except the wheel (logitech optical wheel USB). I'm really hoping you guys can help me with the following before I go back to dialup on Saturday...

How do I get static allowed to mount CDROMS and the floppy & not just root? Also reboot and shutdown...

Do I need an fstab entry for the floppy?

Will I be able to burn CD's as static once I (we ;) solve this mounting issue - or is there more I need to know before it'll work? Scratch this - help fuzz in "CD-RW" and I'll read it there :)

How do I get numlock to turn on on bootup?

About the mousewheel (need that for quake 3) - I have

Code:

Option "Protocol" "ps/2"

Is that ok? It isn't microsoft (and it isn't ps/2) Other than that I followed vlad's how-to exactly!

I'm absolutely loving this so far and I owe you guys it all...
These last issues will mean I can get my family into linux too!
Thanks in advance..
static_________________Gentoo and Doom III. 'Nuff Said.
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well for your floppy you can add something like:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
the first auto option tells the linux to autodect the floppys filesystem, so you should be able to mount linux and dos floppys with the same command
and the noauto,user tells linux not to mount the floppy at boottime and the user option will let anyone mount the floppy

you might be able to just type the mount command for the floppy without an entry, it depends on how relaxed the permissions for /dev/fd0 are

as to letting normal users mount the cdrw drive (or any drive for that matter) just add the user option to the fstab file like i have up above for the floppy

as to the numlock i know ive seen how to do this before ( i think it was on mandrake) but i cant quite remember if its a kernel option, an init option, or something else altogether... ill look around

That works for me, I have a Logitech Mouseman Wheel Optical (USB). Hope that helps
ya.

static wrote:

Hi! I have now successfully installed gentoo and KDE. That's it. Got my USB mouse working, except the wheel (logitech optical wheel USB). I'm really hoping you guys can help me with the following before I go back to dialup on Saturday...

How do I get static allowed to mount CDROMS and the floppy & not just root? Also reboot and shutdown...

Do I need an fstab entry for the floppy?

Will I be able to burn CD's as static once I (we solve this mounting issue - or is there more I need to know before it'll work? Scratch this - help fuzz in "CD-RW" and I'll read it there

How do I get numlock to turn on on bootup?

About the mousewheel (need that for quake 3) - I have

Code:

Option "Protocol" "ps/2"

Is that ok? It isn't microsoft (and it isn't ps/2) Other than that I followed vlad's how-to exactly!

I'm absolutely loving this so far and I owe you guys it all...
These last issues will mean I can get my family into linux too!
Thanks in advance..
static

Num lock, in kde, go to control center, choose perhipherals, then keyboard. Pick advanced, and then choose to turn on num lock when kde starts.
This will turn it on for kde, but only if you have X running, which I assume you do...
As for other window managers, I have no idea about getting it to turn on, Linux by default turns it off, cause when I start my machine, my bios turns it on, then linux turns it off, and then KDE turns it back on.

for secondary master it would be hdc

as for quake, first try emerge libsdl , after doing emerge rsync.
I had lots of problems with opengl and nvidia card because the version of libsdl I had was built incorrectly but the version that is out now works. some how the old version broke opengl.

I emerge rsync every day or two right now, but that is just cause I am still getting my machine setup how I want, but I would do it before you emerge a package just so you get the most up to date stuff. It can't hurt, but if you are on a slow connection, like once a week would probably be enough.
I use the KDE menu's logout and then just choose turn off computer, or i su to halt / reboot.
you could probably just make the halt / reboot commands be executable by group "specialusers" and then make yourself a "specialuser" or something like that I would think, but I have not tried this myself. Although when I view the permissions on my /sbin/halt it shows that others can execute it.

Not sure if ATI cards affected by libSDL, but it wouldn't hurt to update to newest version first and then see what happens.

To allow any user to shutdown, or reboot the system you have to do the following:

Create a file named shutdown.allow in /etc. The shutdown.allow file should list the usernames of any users who are allowed to shutdown the system. The format of the /etc/shutdown.allow file is a list of usernames, one per line, like the following:
john
paul
george
ringo

Next edit /etc/inittab and add -a to the end of all lines related to shutdown. This will tell the system to look at the shutdown.allow file to see if that user is able to shutdown the system._________________Boricua Hasta La Muerte

i tried the script you wrote but i can't seem to get it to work. i already had a numlock file in my /etc/init.d/ folder and i mistakingly over-wrote it with your version of the numlock file. nothing good or bad happened, the numlock still doesn't start up. what could i be doing wrong?

To allow any user to shutdown, or reboot the system you have to do the following:

Create a file named shutdown.allow in /etc. The shutdown.allow file should list the usernames of any users who are allowed to shutdown the system. The format of the /etc/shutdown.allow file is a list of usernames, one per line, like the following:
john
paul
george
ringo

Next edit /etc/inittab and add -a to the end of all lines related to shutdown. This will tell the system to look at the shutdown.allow file to see if that user is able to shutdown the system.

I followed the steps you've described and this is the result
voicu@rothsupport voicu $ /sbin/reboot
reboot: must be superuser